Deviance and Family Placement

Deviance and Family Placement: An engaging teaching resource

A comprehensive educational tool for public school teachers or homeschooling parents, specifically designed to introduce students in grades 7 through 10 to key socio-criminological concepts.

Major Topics Covered:

• Deviant behavior

• Folkways, Mores, Taboos and Laws

• Formal sanctions & Informal Sanctions

• The concept of crime and related theories including Deterrence theory, Social Disorganization theory, and Broken Windows Policing know-how.

The material also includes two engaging activities focusing on social desirability and deviance promoting deeper understanding of the subjects while keeping the education process interactive and mentally stimulating.

Adoption placement activity: A thought-provoking exercise!

In this task students will have to decide a caregiving family out of ten "deviant" families for a child! They will grapple with questions such as which families seem more "undesirable"? And what role do our inherent biases play?

Saints & Roughnecks: A sociological study

This famous research integrated within the resource analyses similar behavior patterns between two groups from entirely different socioeconomic backgrounds. It offers insights into how they are differently perceived by their communities?

Data Format:
The teaching resource comes with a comprehensive Google Drive™ folder along with clear slide presentations providing structured explanations on each topic for easy usage in today's digitally-dominated classrooms.

Note: This resource is accessibly written as per grade-level language proficiency ensuring that target students (Grades 7 through 10) can grasp every concept narrated therein during any social studies session covering sociology sub-topics. Add Deviance & Family placement to your teaching assets: an intelligently designed academic tool promoting cognitive development via exploration of intriguing social phenomena existing right around us!